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different window sometimes and I’d recommend it, but I’m not giving away any secrets - for that, I would have to kill you (that saying is always funny). I would, however, like to offer what I can in terms of money tips that can help you save dough for that sunny day and now seems like as good a time as any to start a new column entitled How Cheap Can You Get? (Look inside REVED for money-saving techniques that will change your life!) Or maybe you just want to stay at home? And that’s okay. Traveling can be a nasty harbinger of what’s to come: you’ll meet people from all over and the next thing you know, you’ll just want to visit them in their exotic locals and, crap, that means more money! I thought if I traveled enough in my twenties, I’d get it out of my system, but it doesn’t work that way. You end up seeing enough to fill books and then you want to start writing them. >>>
it just me, or is Revelstoke kicking into another gear these days? We’ve got the new Gallery of the Selkirks on Orton Ave; new bike shops, book stores and restaurants. Under new management, the Visual Arts Centre is going off with exhibitions, live music and presentations and the Revelstoke Museum and Archives held a great opening for the Mount Begbie Ascent Centennial. Otesha, a youth traveling bike tour brought us some environmentalawareness in the form of a hilarious play (see otesha.ca); enough voices stopped a major road through the Greenbelt and the day a lot of Revelstokian’s have been anticipating draws near as the bee hive burner goes down, baby! These are all great things. Ahhh, Revelstoke – small enough to worry about running into your doctor on the street, but big enough to move forward. >>> I find people like to ask how I can afford to travel so much. What the hell is your secret, they ask, do you have labs in your basement? sugar daddies? inherited wealth? Usually, I just answer yes to stop the guesswork, even though in theory, sugar daddies creep me out. But the truth is, I just don’t know. It’s like anything, I guess, if it’s important enough, you find a way. I cringe at property taxes and triple-digit gas prices like everyone else, but, gosh darn-it, I just love seeing the view out a
I’d like to thank the following people for their help in putting this issue of REVED together: Denise King, Gabriella Draboczi, Sarah Newton, Melissa Hemphill and Shannon Robinson for their content and art contributions; Alice Weber, Joanne Stacey and Cecilia Lea for their editing skills and Ariane and Calvino Anderson for their help with ad sales and content. Thank you!
Artist in Profile:
Christa Duddy is on page 2
Emerging
What Matters..
by Heather Lea
Carsharing in Revelstoke If you thought you could raise over $5000 and then hand it all away to people who’s lives you could enrich but would never meet, would you do it? Eighteen year olds, Cali Olleck and Jillian Brownlee did without a second thought. After listening to a motivational speaker with Free the Children talk at Revelstoke Secondary School, Cali got to thinking. She then partnered up with her friend Jillian and together, the two girls read through the Free the Children website. “The website showed us what money could buy what,” says Jillian, “$50 would buy a goat and $5000 would buy a school.” The girls felt that reaching a goal of $5000 was attainable and opted for the province of Gansu, (population 26,000,000+) in northern China. Now the tough part begins; how to raise that much money? Some innovative cash-making techniques were thought up and with the help of Mount Begbie and Arrow Heights schools, the town of Revelstoke opened their wallets to fundraisers such as potlucks, garage sales and even a banana-eating contest between the students and the teachers. “The students won by, I think, two bananas,” laughs Cali adding that over ninety bananas were consumed between 5 students, “It was gross, people were throwing up and stuff.” There are few things worth getting sick on bananas for, but building a school that will educate children for years to come is definitely worthy. When asked if they ever felt like they
Jillian
Cali
might not reach the $5000 goal, Jillian says yes while breathing a sigh of relief, “Toward the end I thought it might not happen but then Cali planned the potluck and the Rec Centre and we got the rest of the money.” The potluck brought in a final $700, which topped donations over and above the initial goal, to $5500. Cali and Jillian hope to use the extra money to help furnish the school with necessary materials. So, what have you spent $5000 on lately?
Did you know?
in developing countries...
FREE!
• $1 buys $10 worth of medical supplies • $50 buys a goat, an alternative source of income for a poor family • $100 pays for a clean water program, on average per family cost based on average water program cost per community • $500 pays for a lunchtime feeding program in a primary school for one year • $1200 pays for the salary of a teacher in a primary school for one year • $5,000 pays for the construction of a school (source:www.freethechildren.com)
Carsharing is an idea of out Europe that has spread quickly across North America. Currently there are fifteen carshare cooperatives in Canada. Fifteen cities where you can be free of all the hassles of owning a vehicle, yet enjoy the freedom that driving offers! This spring Revelstoke became that 15th city! We have in our hot little hands (ok, it is in the driveway), a 2003 Toyota Echo! This baby can go 100 km on only 5 litres of fuel! Compare that to some SUV’s (Such Unsightly Vehicles) that need over fifteen litres to do the same distance. The Revelstoke Carshare Cooperative is a not for profit organization that is a branch of the Nelson Carshare Cooperative. Our members use an on-line booking service to reserve the Echo and pay a small user fee. Here is how the money pans out exactly: To join the Cooperative, a member pays a $500 share that is fully refundable if you choose to quit. Then each month there is a $4 administrative fee to cover costs related to bookkeeping and paperwork. Once you jump in the Echo you pay a $1.50/ hour rate (to a maximum of $15/day) and a 20 cent per kilometre rate. This is much cheaper than renting AND wait until you hear what that 20 cents gets you! It includes ICBC insurance, all vehicle maintenance, and the GAS! That’s right, you fuel up the vehicle and the carshare takes that amount off your monthly bill. It is estimated that the per km rate for owning a vehicle is 75 cents. If you drive 15,000 km a year, that’s $11, 250! Carshare saves you substantial amounts of money. In our household we walk to work and
Heather Lea editor@reved.net
by Sarah Newton
Shannon Robinson
WHAT’S IN THERE?
SUMMER 2007
only need a car for trips out of town. We were able to cancel our ICBC insurance when we joined the carshare, and we only book the car when we need it. Not only are we saving a lot of money, we walk and bike more without a vehicle in our driveway. As well, we don’t have the headache of worrying about maintenance and repair costs - the cooperative picks that up! We also feel good about the environment by joining the carshare! Less cars are being made and we are driving less. What if someone books the car when you need it? No problem, you take a taxi or rent a vehicle, whichever is cheaper, and you pay the carshare rate, the cooperative picks up the difference. The developed world has a love affair with the motorized vehicle, a love affair that is showing itself to be more and more dysfunctional. So break up with that bully in the driveway and find a new partner - one you get to share with others and one that doesn’t make you feel guilty or dirty. For more information on the Revelstoke Carshare Cooperative you can visit www.nelsoncar.com or contact Sarah Newton or Rory Luxmoore at 837-4290.
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia”. - (Charles Schultz)
I write because I must; it’s like air and water, necessary for my well-being. I’m not a new writer, but I’m not published and that is my goal. I’ve been writing fiction for ten years now, but it’s been sporadic spurts of literary flow. Only this past year have I managed to get my butt out by Denise King of bed at 5:00 am to write - but to be honest, many mornings the only thing getting me out of bed is the gurgling of my pre-set coffee maker. That’s a pretty pathetic motivator, but it works! Another thing that works is being accountable. Last winter I was accepted into a correspondence writing program at the Humber School of Creative Writing working one-on-one with a published author – with that for motivation I wrote seven chapters in six months.
Calling All Reading Writers! Since moving back to
Revelstoke, I’ve discovered there are no writing groups and I wanted to do something about that, but something different, so this is my idea – a Writers’ Reading Group that combines the concept of a book club with a writing group. One month we will analyze a book using a writer’s perspective and the next month we will look at our own writing. If you get all fired up talking about character, plot, setting, and theme -whether it’s to do with your own writing or from a novel - then this group is for you. If you are a writer, aspiring or otherwise, and would like to join the Writers’ Reading Group, send an email to dskdss@yahoo.ca.
Artist in Profile: Christa Duddy had a knack for drawing people early in life. Her first masterpiece was at the young age of three on her mother’s bedroom wall, where Christa’s mom admits that “it was just too cute to scrub off”. Christa added “I have always loved to draw.” Christa has been a resident of Revelstoke for five years and is twenty-four years old. She moved here from Vanderhoof, BC to be with her husband Matt. Since then, she has come a long way and draws people portraits in charcoal, pastels and chalk. “I like these methods because they are very versatile for details and I find it’s easy to combine colours for the colour I need.” She took art classes in high school, and credits the book “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Dr. Betty Edwards to her success. In 1999, Christa finished the charcoal picture shown on the front page of this newspaper. The reason she chose to draw this picture was that she felt the technique of shadows, rather than lines, created an interesting look. “It’s a unique way of drawing, I like the effect of something different”. Her sketchbook always has art in the making. “I’m exploring more with animals, it’s a work in progress but I’m enjoying it”. If you would like to get in touch with Christa for a custom family portrait or drawing, you can call 814-0238 or email her at christabelle_j@hotmail.com.
How Cheap Can You Get?
“I prefer ‘frugal’” Shannon Robinson
Write This Way
by Heather Lea
If you’re a cheap-ass, this column’s for you! Money Saving Tip #1:
There are many ways to save money on your mortgage. You can fix your mortgage payments so they are paid weekly, bi-weekly or semi-monthly, but another option is called Rapid PayDown. If you choose a Bi-weekly Rapid PayDown, you are adding one extra payment/year, which exponentially saves you money in the long run. Have a look at the chart below based on a $200,000 mortgage loan at 7.5% over a twenty-five year period: Payment Frequency
Amount
Monthly Bi-weekly Weekly Bi-weekly Rapid Weekly Rapid
$1,463.11 $675.28 $337.64 $731.56 $365.78
Amortization Years
Total Interest Paid
25.1 25.1 25.0 20.2 20.1
Savings vs. Monthly Payment
$239,008 $237,653 $237,327 $183,897 $183,277
$0 $1,355 $1,681 $55,111 $55,731
As you can see, you save heaps of cash with the Bi-weekly Rapid payment plan however, keep in mind that after your term ends, you may be in a different financial situation. You may want the flexibility of regular bi-weekly payments with an added amount when you can afford it. Either way, making frequent, regular payments is better in the long twenty-five year run. Heck, I might finally start to think about having kids by that time - an extra $55,000 could come in handy!
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usic Notes
What does music mean to you?
‘Music is the glue that keeps our entertainment world together. - Mr. Shannon Sternloff Get Live Music Agency Music (hearing a song I know) takes me back to whatever or wherever I was at that exact moment....Sorta like smells and flavours. - Guy Seymour The Nomad I live music, especially to dance to, especially with a group of friends to dance with. Live music; feet stomping, head down, hands up, teeth smiling, hooting and hollering. - Sheena Williams Supermodel/Lillie’s Mommy To me, music is like air, essential to life and part of who I am. - Joanne Stacey Singer/Songwriter It keeps memories close.
- Barbara Rose assistant manager mica heli guides ltd
MUSIC - soul overflows with joy, ears percolate, spirit thrives, booty grooves. - Heidi Bell MOM & Music Director Revelstoke Mountain Beats Festival 2007 Music can sooth, excite, evoke movement, smiles and warm memories. - Sherri McEwan Retired with Freedom 35 Music makes the endorphins flow and the worries disappear especially when combined with weaving, spinning, and other creative pursuits. - Rosalie Williams Educator/Weaver I love music because it takes me places inside and out and around the world. - Carol Palladino Traveller I love music in my life because it’s the one language that every person in the world can understand. It can always bring about a better mood, and can enhance any moment. - Brad Wolanski Web Designer
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Health & You
Heritage Moment by Calvino Anderson
A Night To Remember! March 31st 1965, was a night that is still talked about among many long time residents of Revelstoke. It was the night Revelstoke became stage for a rare and breathtaking event. The night was clear and at approximately 9:47pm, a spectacular fireball temporarily turned night into day. Long time local resident Odes De Jager recalls, “All of a sudden it was like daylight, I could have read my newspaper”. This meteorite was seen by thousands across Alberta and British Columbia, including that of an Air Canada pilot who witnessed this amazing event while flying at 5000 meters over southern Saskatchewan. Scientists compiled all reports in an attempt to find out where the meteorite had landed. They concluded that the meteor must have come to rest north of Revelstoke in the Monashee Mountains. Despite their efforts, they had to wait until mid-April when Elmer Coats and Alfred Daniels where snowshoeing through a remote area some 64 Kilometers North West of Revelstoke for the purpose of trapping beavers. There they stumbled across some tiny black fragments embedded in the ice. These turned out to be Carbonaceous Chondrite an extremely rare kind of meteor found to be very high in water content and thus extremely perishable. Scientists knew this was likely all that was left of the meteor as it would have disintegrated on its way through the atmosphere. Some small fragments (0.2grams) are currently on display in the Canadian Meteorite Collection in Ottawa.
You’re a Fruit Cake! Sample the wine to check for quality. Get a large bowl. Check the wine again to make sure that it is of the highest quality. Pour 1 level cup and drink. Repeat if you’re not sure. Turn on the electric mixer and beat 1 cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add 1 tsp. sugar and beat again. Make sure the wine is still okay. Cry another tup. Turn off the mixer. Break two legs and add to the bowl along with vanilla and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers, pry it loose with a drewscriver. Check the wine again. Next sift 2 cups of salt, or something. Who cares. Now sift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add 1 table. Spoon. Of sugar or flour or something. Whatever you can find. Grease the oven. Turn the cake pan to 350 degrees. Don’t forget to beat off the turner, and....oh, who the hell likes fruitcake anyway?
The O in BO by Melissa Hemphill Armpits are great for making funny noises with an appropriately cupped hand, but other than that are generally hairy, potentially stinky parts of our bodies. Below the surface there are lymph nodes, a high concentration of sweat glands, and in women they are immediately adjacent to our breasts. Sweating is important in regulating our internal temperature, and the sweat from our pits contains proteins, fatty acids, water, salts, vitamin C, metabolism waste by-products, and lactic acid. The contents of sweat are not responsible for its odour – what is responsible is the bacteria that thrive on this nutritious concoction. This puts the O in BO. The solution? We lather our pits up with a brew of not-fit-toconsume chemicals, which decimate the stank-causing bacteria by plugging up our pores. Antiperspirants work by supplying aluminum to the pores that when mixed with sweat, dissolves and plugs up the sweat glands, no longer allowing them to function. Aluminum has been shown to be a neurotoxin, but apparently aluminum zirconium trichlorohydrex (the form in most antiperspirants) is less absorbable than other forms of aluminum and is used in antiperspirants because it is less irritable to the delicate armpit skin. Keep in mind that antiperspirants (which are considered over-the-counter drugs) also contain pthalates, zinc compounds and propylene glycol, yet none of these ingredients need to be on the label. There have been studies done that indicate links between underarm products and both breast cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease. So, great – we’ve got a product that plugs up our temperature-regulating system and is no longer capable of eliminating body wastes, plus we’re depositing known-to-be-harmful chemicals onto an area of our body that is located right next to our lymph nodes and our breasts. And we do it every day– sometimes twice. What are the alternatives? Well, there’s the stinky-hippy method of pits-au-natural, or there are natural deodorants which allow your skin to still sweat but not stink. These come in several different application forms, scents and types from different companies. Rock (crystal) salt kills off the odour-causing bacteria, and other natural deodorants contain natural bacteria killers plus skin-nourishing herbs. Take a look in the shops and ask around for products that other’s recommend. Two hints: if you have been using standard antiperspirants for many years, think about the state that your armpit sweat glands are in – give them a little bit to adjust to a new type of product, and try a few different products to see which one works with your body chemistry. Also keep in mind that caffeine contributes largely to BO (body odour), so help the problem from the inside by decreasing your coffee and pop intake – there are other added benefits of this too. Raise your hand if you’re sure you don’t want to put nasty chemicals on your pits! And decrease your need to sweat by keeping a calm, relaxed mind.
Healthy Ways to Maintain Your Sanity Diet Tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It’ll take the edge off your appetite and you’ll eat less. GABI
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Christmas Island
523 3rd. St. W 1-888-826-5555
837 - 3262
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301 Wright St.
837 - 2191
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2 km east of Revelstoke off Hwy 1 837 - 3322
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837 - 7041
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815 MacKenzie Ave.
837 - 9337
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Comfort Inn
Hillcrest Hotel
Macpherson Lodge B&B Minto Manor B&B Peaks Lodge
5km West of Revelstoke on Hwy 1 837 - 2176
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201 W 2nd St.
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Powder Springs Inn
837 - 5151
Smokey Bear Resort
5 km west of Revelstoke on Hwy 1 837 - 9573
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1101 Victoria Rd.
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Swiss Chalet Lodge
837 - 4650
Sleeps n’ Eats Where to stay and eat in Revelstoke
Restaurants/Pubs $ = under $15 $$ = $15 - 25 $$$ = $25 and up
Donna’s Restaurant 201 W 2nd St.
837 - 5151
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located at the Hillcrest Hotel
837 - 3322
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212 Mackenzie Ave.
837 - 6886
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306 Mackenzie Ave.
837- 4067
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5km West of Revelstoke on Hwy 1
837 - 2176
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171 Columbia Park Ave.
837 - 2440
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112 1st St. E.
837 - 2107
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1601 W Victoria
837 - 4211
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604 2nd. St. W
837 - 5500
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112 1st St. E
837 - 2107
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Modern Bake Shop & Cafe Magpie & Stump
Peaks Lodge Restaurant
Revelstoke Golf Course Restaurant River City Pub
The Nomad Food Company
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What’s Your Biz’ness? The Secret Garden Book Shop It was a fateful Christmas party that brought Amber Thompson and Chantelle Carter, both age thirty, together as friends. Yet it took another party the following year to come together with a plan - a plan to purchase Backroom Books used bookstore, for sale by then-owner, Wendy Wright. For Amber, owning a bookstore had been a dream for many years. “When I heard Wendy was selling Backroom Books, I felt I couldn’t miss the opportunity.” Two years ago, Amber and her Saskatchewan born husband, Dean, found Revelstoke basically by “taking the turnoff. Dean likes the outdoors and I had a great feeling about the community, Revelstoke’s perfect for us.” Looking for a new challenge, Amber spoke with Chantelle who decided she would like to come in on the deal. “ I felt it might be too much on my plate due to having a full time job
and discovering I was pregnant with our first child, so when Chantelle decided she would like to be a partner in the business, it was the ideal solution. Chantelle also felt like the venture was something she couldn’t pass up. “It works well for me, I was ready to venture into the workplace as my youngest starts school this year.” Chantelle and her husband Chris moved here from Kimberley two years ago.” We were chasing the snow, and we found that Revelstoke is the perfect place to bring up our young family.” Both women hope that Revelstoke keeps its community feel, with the development of the ski hill, but say it is important to move forward, as long as it appeals to residents. “If we get big-box stores coming into this town, they could kill small businesses like this. We want to always be able to fill the niche for locals
and visitors looking for quality used books”, says Amber. And quality books are what they have. According to an impressed book-fanatic who came for a visit, The Secret Garden Bookshop houses some impressive collectable classics. Amber and Chantelle hope to start bringing in local authors for book signings and events such as poetry readings, but until then come and check out the relaxing courtyard complete with wireless internet and the cozy upstairs lounge where you can drink herbal tea and read through some of your choices “with no obligation to buy”. The Secret Garden is open long hours throughout the week and is an ideal stop for a relaxing evening. Call 837-3353 for information or if you’d like to bring in your used books for sale.
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